ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2004 INTRODUCTION The incorporation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) into goods transport promises to increase productivity, security and efficiency. This feature reviews emerging examples of “passive” data collection efforts in several states. Work remains to transform these opportunities into needs identified by freight planners and researchers. Freight movem...

Changes in food distribution have led to the fact that sales of products by commercial enterprises take place a large area small batches fulfilling individual orders. In most cases, delivery is made road. However, there are virtually no guidelines for choice vehicles, their configuration and quantity necessary groupage. Therefore, it essential determine road transportation efficiency, which on ...

A well-functioning freight transportation system is an essential element in any successful economy. However, at the beginning of the new millennium, the prediction is that the demand for goods movement will outstrip the rate of improvements to the physical infrastructure. Marked growth in time-sensitive freight markets will tax demands on a system that already is operating near capacity in some...

Freight village (FV) is a logistics phenomenon with broad economic, social and environmental consequences. A well organized and knowledge-based planning process is critical to realize sustainable development of FVs, due to its capability to avoid negative phenomena (e.g., unnecessary FV projects, high vacancy rates, unsuitable sites, disturbance to local residents, air and water pollutions) fro...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how a smart phone freight application service (Apps) could reduce CO2 emissions in road freight transport and to identify the core problems for improvements. Methods This research uses a multiple-case-study approach to examine several existing freight apps in the Chinese market. The study was conducted using multiple data collection technique...

Automotive purchasing power is an important indicator of a country's economic development, recently the domestic car-sale market are shrinking .In additional,it face more competitive envorinment, It is essential to enhance the competitive strength in domestic auto industry ,and developing the more effective enterprise resource allocation method. In this study, based on a car dealer in Taiwan th...

Metropolitan Adelaide, a city of 1.1 million people, occupying a spatial extent of 1826 km 2 at density of a mere 6.1 persons/ha (ABS, 2006), with the release in 2010 of the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (30YPGA) (GSA, 2010), is potentially at a pivotal point in its development. The vast spread of metropolitan Adelaide across the Adelaide plains, and into the Adelaide Hills extending approx...

Road freight transportation between provinces of a country has an important effect on the traffic flow of intercity transportation networks. Therefore, an accurate estimation of the road freight transportation for provinces of a country is so crucial to improve the rural traffic operation in a largescale management. Accordingly, the focused case study database in this research is the informatio...